In response to the national alarm over social media’s impact on children’s mental health, the Legislature will soon consider a bill that requires these platforms to verify users in our state to be adults or get parental consent to sign up if they are under 18. This bill, which was tabled during the lame duck session, follows the same legal path trod by “age-gating” laws passed in California, Utah, Ohio, and Arkansas, where in each case they were hit with injunctions by federal courts that found these measures to be “likely” violations of the First Amendment. While we all seek answers to a ques…